One other note: He could sue you. And win. Better: He could sue you and win. Starting a sentence with and is considered poor grammar. Granted, a character may actually talk that way.
In the paragraph, "This question of mine froze him.... You use some punctuation which I'm unfamiliar with and I cannot type it. << >> kind of like this... but closer together and narrower. They are used for making arrows or as a math symbol.
It's not even in the original file.